Pharmaceutics Laboratories

Our Pharmaceutics laboratories are at the heart of the School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, helping students develop a better understanding of the causes and consequences of diseases, and the skills and expertise needed to develop and test new drugs.

Students on our BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, BSc (Hons) Pharmacology, MPharm (Hons) Pharmacy, MSc Medical Biotechnology and MRes Science courses make regular use of the laboratories. There's also a thriving postgraduate research programme in the labs, and they're used throughout the year by PhD researchers from around the world.

Explore our laboratories

The video below showcases the facilities under the former school that has now become the School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences.

Discover our facilities

Students and staff at the School of Pharmacy and Biomedicine talk about the outstanding facilities they have to use during their research and studies.

The facilities here at the University of Portsmouth are really cutting edge. We have a lot of technology and lots of hands on equipment that get you ready for when you go out into the working world. We do some collaborative learning that’s involving things like collaborative microscopy, putting microscopic images on big screens and getting them to talk about them and understand what they mean.

We have the mannequins so we can treat them and we have heads so you can look in otoscopes. We offer inhaler techniques so they can explain to patients how to use their asthma inhalers. We give them the option to practice blood pressure monitoring, we have simulated arms and the students practice the use of blood pressure monitors on those arms.

When they’re safe and competent they can do it on each other. In every unit we have a practical or an experiment that we do. All of the lecturers make sure that the experiments that we do will give us some kind of skill, that they know we can use later on in a different area of our career.

We give students the opportunity to have a practical engagement in addition to undertaking the theory behind it.

Equipment and amenities

Facilities and equipment include:

Tissue culture laboratories handling various cell and tissue types/species
BD Biosciences FACs calibur flow cytometers
Electric Cell-substrate Impedence Sensing ECIS 1600R

Histology equipment in the labs include:

Automatic tissue processor
Leica Cryostats
Leica Microtomes
Leica Vibratome
Leica Wax embedders
Microscopes such as:
Zeiss 710 LSM confocal
Zeiss 880 LSM confocal
Zeiss LIve Cell imaging microscope
Zeiss LSM 5 Pascal Exciter Axio SKO P2 FS (Calcium imaging microscope)
Leica Ariol Microscope system
Axio Vert A1 Imaging System
Evos FL Auto live cell imaging microscope
Inverted microscopes
Fluorescence microscope
Fluorescence microscope

Molecular Biology equipment in the labs includes:

Microtitre plate readers
PCR machines
Gel Doc systems
Biorad ChemiDoc system
Western blot equipment
Sorval Ultracentrifuge

Facilities and equipment:

Zeiss LSM 5 Pascal Exciter Axio SKO P2 FS (Calcium imaging microscope)
Various electrophysiology rigs
ADI Instrumentation, physiological and pharmacological recording equipment
Hitachi Ultracentrifuge
Tissue culture laboratory

Molecular Biology equipment such as:

PCR machines
qPCR machine
Western blot equipment

Facilities and equipment:

JEOL 400Mhz NMR
Sympatec Helos Particle Sizer
Advanced Rheometer 2000
Various HPLCs
Agilent GCMS
Waters GPC2000
Thermo Scientific iCE 3500GFAAS Atomic Absorption equipment
Varian FTIR
FTIR-ATR Nicolet
FTIR Raman unit
FTIR Microscope
Nanosight NTA
Zetasizer + titrator
Lambda 650 Uvvis Diffuse
Contact Goniometer G10
Atomic Force Microscope
Electrosprayer
Speedvac concentrator savant
3D Bioprinter
UV spectrophotometers
Rotary evaporators

Facilities and equipment:

Varian fluorescence spectrophotometer
Electrophoresis kits
Western blot equipment
Spectrophotometers
Anaerobic cabinets
Category 1 and 2 lab facilities

Contact us

Tel: +44 (023) 9284 3546
Email: pharmacybms@port.ac.uk

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Pharmacy and Biomedical Science Teaching Centre

Practise the skills needed to diagnose and help people manage diseases, including collaborative microscopy - examining 3D microscopic images on a big screen with academics and other students.